Wishing To Be Yet Nothing's What It Seems...

See the pretty bird
flying ever high
Not seeing the cat watching
out the corner of its eye.

See the business man
shaking a partner's hand
Not knowing the partner's hidden gun
will send him to the land of the dead..

See the sad friend that wishes
the other could come and play
Not knowing she is weak from
abuse from her parents,
every day

See the girl laughing
and smiling
Not showing how
inside she's dying

See the proud father
watching as his son graduates
not knowing the son's girlfriend
is impregnated

See the big boss with
tons of cash and happiness
not knowing from child
labour comes his bliss

Life is short yet
all are naive
nothing is what
we perceive it to be..